IRP SUMMER RESEARCH WORKSHOP
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MONDAY, JUNE 18 |
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Session 1: Labor Market Outcomes |
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1:00-2:15 | “The Association between Children’s
Earnings and Father’s Lifetime Earnings: Estimates Using Administrative
Data” Molly Dahl, Congressional Budget Office, and Thomas DeLeire, Michigan State University |
2:15-3:30 | "Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth:
Implications for Adult Labor Market Outcomes" Joseph Altonji, Prashant Bharadwaj, and Fabian Lange, Yale University |
3:30-3:45 | Break |
3:45-5:00 | “The Effect of Merging Current Population Survey and Social Security Administrative Data on Perception of Poverty” Michael Wiseman, George Washington University |
Session 2: Crime and Victimization |
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5:00-6:15 | “Estimating Risk:
Stereotype Amplification and the
Perceived Risk of Criminal Victimization” Lincoln Quillian, Northwestern University, and Devah Pager, Princeton University |
TUESDAY, JUNE 19 |
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Session 2: Crime and Victimization (continued) |
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8:30-9:45 | “Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods” David Harding, University of Michigan |
Session 3: Children |
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9:45-11:00 | “Does Pre-Natal WIC Participation Improve Birth
Outcomes? New Evidence from Florida” David Figlio, Sarah Hamersma, and Jeffrey Roth, University of Florida |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:30 | “Non-Cognitive
Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care” Nabanita Datta Gupta, Danish National Institute of Social Research, and Marianne Simonsen, University of Aarhus |
1:30-2:45 | “How Do Adolescents Spell Time Use?” Charlene Kalenkoski, Ohio University, David Ribar, George Washington University, and Leslie Stratton, Virginia Commonwealth University |
2:45-3:00 | Break |
Session 4: Welfare |
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3:00-4:15 | “Social Policy and Income Inequality” Christopher Bollinger and James Ziliak, University of Kentucky |
4:15-5:30 | “Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Dependency:
The Effects of Length of Exposure” Oscar Mitnik, University of Miami |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20 |
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Session 5: Education |
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8:30-9:45 | “Alternative Mechanisms of Peer Achievement Spillovers:
Implications for Identification and Policy” Jane Cooley, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
9:45-11:00 | "Population Heterogeneity, Ignorability, and Causal Inference" Yu Xie, University of Michigan |
11:00-11:15 | Break |
11:15-12:30 | “The Changing Role of Family Income and Ability in
Determining Educational Achievement” Philippe Belley and Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario |
1:30-2:45 | “Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform?” Marianne Bitler, Public Policy Institute of California, Jonah Gelbach, University of Maryland, and Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Davis |
2:45-4:00 | “Conspicuous Consumption and Race” Kerwin Charles, Erik Hurst, and Nikolai Roussanov, University of Chicago |
Lampman Memorial Lecture Pyle Center, AT&T Lounge, 702 Langdon Street |
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4:30-6:00 | “Building Evidence about What Works: What It Takes and What It
Yields” Judith M. Gueron, Independent Scholar in Residence and President Emerita, MDRC |
6:00-7:00 | Reception in the Pyle Center |
THURSDAY, JUNE 21 |
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The Chicago Workshop on Black-White Inequality funded by the Searle Freedom Trust |
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8:00-9:15 | Session 1: Health |
“The Impact of the Food Stamp Program on Infant
Outcomes” Douglas Almond, Columbia University, Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Davis, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago |
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Discussant: Steve Haider, Michigan State University | |
9:15-9:30 | Break |
9:30-11:45 | Session 2: Discrimination |
“Prejudice and the Economics of Discrimination” Kerwin Charles and Jonathan Guryan, University of Chicago |
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“Will Job Testing Harm Minority Workers? Evidence from the Retail
Sector” David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and David Scarborough, Black Hills State University |
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Discussant: Kevin Lang, Boston University | |
12:30-2:45 | Session 3: Education and Skills |
“Racial Labor Market Gaps: The Role of Abilities and
Schooling Choices” Sergio Urzúa, University of Chicago |
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“The Consequences of Using Proficiency Counts in School Accountability
Systems” Derek Neal and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, University of Chicago |
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Discussant: Julie Berry Cullen, University of California, San Diego |
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Posted: April 6, 2007 by DD
Last Updated:
May 1, 2008
by DD